dual boot screen and wireless keyboard

[GARY63]

I have a keysonic wireless keyboard model ACK-540RF, And a PC dual booting
windows xp and windows vista ultimate. My problem is that the up and down
keys wont toggle between the two options in the boot screen so I have to
have a wired keyboard connected to do this.In every other way the wireless
keyboard is fine. As far as I can remember the wireless keyboard carried out
this function previosly. The up and down keys work fine on the wireless
keyboard after windows starts. please help thanks in advance.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Sorry, but this newsgroup is for questions about Access, the database
product that's part of Office Professional.

You'd be best off reposting your question to a hardware-related newsgroup
associated with your operating system such as
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware or
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices

 

[BruceM]

It would be best to ask this in a Vista group, or maybe an XP group. This
group is for discussions about Microsoft Access, a relational database
program.

 

[BobS]

I have a keysonic wireless keyboard model ACK-540RF, And a PC dual
booting windows xp and windows vista ultimate. My problem is that the
up and down keys wont toggle between the two options in the boot
screen so I have to have a wired keyboard connected to do this.In
every other way the wireless keyboard is fine. As far as I can
remember the wireless keyboard carried out this function previosly.
The up and down keys work fine on the wireless keyboard after windows
starts. please help thanks in advance.

Gary,

It's not a keyboard problem. Check your BIOS to make sure that the USB
ports are enabled (assuming your wireless keyboard and mouse are USB
connections). If you're not using the serial ports (COM ports),
parallel port (LPT1) or the PS2 ports you may want to disable those in
the BIOS settings.

If your system is reasonably current (3 years old or so), your BIOS
should support initializing the USB ports during boot-up so to insure
your mouse and keyboard are activated before Windows kicks in.

If you don't know how to do that, post back with the system info such
as make & model of computer or if you have it, the motherboard model
number and BIOS version.

Bob S.